Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 31:10-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 31 in context

Scripture Focus

10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

11I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

13Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

17They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 31:10-18

Biblical Context

A mighty figure lifts itself up in height and is cut down by judgment. The message is that exalted self-importance collapses and leaves the earth for humility and exile.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Ezekiel’s image, the towering tree represents a state of consciousness that identifies with pride and feels itself above others. When you cling to that exalted self, you are delivered into the hands of forces that reflect your inner resistance—the mighty one of the heathen—so the branches are broken and the shadow withdraws. Neville’s approach asks you to reverse the scene: observe pride as a mental construct, not your true I AM, and rest in the awareness that animates all. By affirming I AM and feeling it as real, you allow the fall to become a correction in consciousness rather than punishment. The uprooting of the tree signals a resetting of inner faculties; the rivers and pits symbolize the inward changes that realign your life with humility and grounded strength. The lesson is not estrangement but alignment: true stature arises from the quiet, enduring power of awareness that sustains life from within.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM now: you are the observer of your mind. Visualize the prideful tree within you topple; as it falls, feel the peace of humbler, truer order taking root.